The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02
FLORIDA.

1lucI 10 lCu,OAAiS Oii tC" NOihs
Leon county has large beds of kaolin.
Over 400 people visited Pablo Beach Sun
day.
Eight families from Welaka win summer
ON the Matanzas.
A fruit growers association will shortly
be organized on the Fruitland peninsula.
The Orlando Cornet Band is making ar
rangenerits for trip to Sanford July q.
Clear Water is to have a novelty work
shop and general planning mill in short
time.
The young people of the Ocala Methodist
church have organized band OF Willing
Workers
The Bessie B., of Lake Worth, arrived at
Jacksonville Monday with cargo of 1900
pineapples
The Barlow Informant thinks the present
will be the most expensive term of court
ever held in Polk county.
Capt Renfro, of Renfro, has bought lot
at Dunnellon and will move his store and
the postoffice to that place.
T. L. Rogers, of Daytona, realized the
past season Ss46 from bis seventy-six
orange trees by sale of the fruit.
William G. Warden has presented the
st. Augustine Women's Christian Temper
duCo Oulbu Will lOI DoO
The shingle mill at Silver Springs is run
ming on full time and turning out $1,000
shingles day, pine and cypress.
The Young Mems Base Ball Club of We
wahitchka desires to get up friendly game
of base ball with the young men OF Apalach-
icola.
There has been over 1 200 crates of vege-
tables shipped by freight and about 700 by
express, making total of 1900 crates up
to date from Oxford.
Sixteen hundred barrels of Portland
cement arrived at the Ancient City during
the week for the new Alcazar. Thirty-six
cars were required to transport it there.
The late fair at Moccasiu Branch for the
benefit of the st. Ambrose church Melted
$500, which will enable Father Langlade to
make very much needed improvements.
Magnolia Division, Sons of Temperance, of
Jacksonville, makes a grand moonlight ex-
cursion TO Green Cove Spring on June Z, for
which extra preparation are in progress.
The quarantine flag for Fort Myers is at
Edison's bulk-head No vessel can possibly
come UP to the city without being seen, as
the Marshal is keeping constant watch.
Some people who are well versed in rail-
road matters say that the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railroad will event
ually have road of its own into Fernan-
dina.
Pioneer Cumby, of Lakeland, who claims
to have killed gators enough to build a
fence around Lakeland, brought the skull
of 12-foot 'varmint" to that town last
week
F. E. Norris of Highland Park, left last
week for Chicago to have an operation per-
formed on his hand, which were seriously
injured some time ago while pruning orange
trees
The British steamship Hercules, at Fer
nandina, was hbelled Saturday in the sum
of S27, 900 by the owners of the tugs which
rescued her from her grounded position,
and will be settled by the United States
Court
The dog law will be enforced rigidly on
and after June / in Palatka. A secure
pound has been erected, and all dogs with
out proper collars will be impounded, and,
if not taken out promptly, they will be
killed ~ s4 aTal
The st. Augustine post Office is again being
enlarged. The room Immediately west of
the present Office will be made the money
order department., and the entrance to this
will be from the first door Of the south side
of the building. 4 Ill Il
A colored brakeman had both thighs
cars near Argyle Station, on the Pensacola
and Atlantic railroad. A special train was
sent out for the unfortunate man, and he
was carried to Pensacola.
The prospects for securing the electric
light plant at DeLand are good, indeed. Mr..
Putnam, who is stirring up the matter, has
canvassed the matter thoroughly and thinks
there is no question about the requisite num-
Der of lights being taken.
The commission to redistrict Jacksonville
was appointed Monday afternoon, and is as
follows: F. P. Fleming, Dexter Hunter,
Joseph E. Lee, Porcher I.'Engle, James
Hoey, A. w. Bars, J. w. Archibald, F. NJ
Robinson, Philip Walter.
A large number of the orange trees in
Young & Wimberly's nursery, at Inter
lachen are being budded. There are some
SOC, 900 trees, of which 800 have been
budded, and $4,000 more are to be budded
during the present season.
On the Eachinfene river some DAYS since
the Whidden boys, so Dan Harrell says,
killed twenty seven rattlesnakes in one hole,
the smallest being three feet in length This
is rather early for SO big snake story, but
well accept it till better one comes up.
A blockade of lumber trains is almost Of
daily occurrence in the Fernandina yard,
and the yardmaster is put to his wits end to
keep things rolling. More track room is
evidently needed, and will have to be made
for this constantly increasing business.
The crop of LeConte pears, peaches and
grapes in Waldo will be unusually large,
Each year but adds to the importance of
these crops, and the indications now show
that Waldo will ship more of each of these
this season than any other point in Florida.
1t is rumored that there is to be change
among the incorporators Of the Welaka,
Palatka and Spring Grove railroad This
will involve new application for charter,
but will not necessarily interfere with the
immediate commencement of work on the
road.
Konomoc is a new town started on the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railway.
seven miles from Sanford, at the junction
of the main line and the Indian River divi-
sion. II Is in a splendid locality and is on
high pine land fronting lake OF the same
name.
G. C. Worley, of Hague, Fla, sends the
MORNING NEWS a sample of oats raised by
him this season. The stalks stand fully five
feet high and the heads are full and well de-
veloped. IL gives a good impression of
Florida farms TO see such evidences Of their
productiveness
A schooner with large cargo of iron for
the Orange Belt railway L discharging at
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railway wharf at Palatka. Fifteen or
twenty Others will follow during the sum
mer, and all the iron and supplies for that
road will pass through Palatxa.
There are several railroad companies